One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate

One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs under the British Mandate, by Tom Segev. Henry Holt and Company, 1999 (translation by Haim Watzman, 2000). 612 pages, cloth, $35.00.

This exciting book by Israeli historian/journalist Tom Segev is about the three fateful decades of Britain's jurisdiction over Palestine and the roots of the struggle between the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionist settler movement. Segev writes: "The Palestine conflict was more than a struggle for land. It was also a battle for myths, religious faith, national honor, and history. Jews and Arabs fought it out with a primal fervor that led inevitably to violence . . ."

Plumbing untapped archival materials and primary sources, the author concludes that racism and anti-Semitism toward both...